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Caution* ot Acts passed by the General
Assembly, and signed by the Govern-
An act to extend aid to the Savannah Med-
At? act to provide against the forfeiture of
the several bank charters in this State, on account
of non specie payment for a given time.
159. An act to amend the several laws in rela
tion to the town of Athens, and extend the corpo
rale authorities thereof. , . , .
A resolution lhat lift public Prune r f ur “>^ h *“*
member of the General Assembly with the Jour
nal and Acts of the legislature, one copy each.
A resolution to change requisitions of testimony
required .by meritorious applicants for bounty
**l6o. An act to provide for the election of a pub
lic Administrator in the counties ol Thomas, Slus
'X: Sefof Henry Dnke, of Jack
non county, and other persons.
162. An act for the compensation of superinten
dents of election in the counties of Burke, Heard,
Habersham, Elbert, Early, and Jackson.
163 An act to grant to B. Thomassey, the use
of land on Tybee Island, belonging to the State, on
certain conditions. , ~
164. An act to amend the several acts touching
the corporation of the town of Madison.
165. An act additional to an act to incorporate
the town of Brunswick, Ac., approved Feb. 22,
1856, to amend the charter thereof, and for other
purposes.
166. An act to authorise the trustees of Glynn
county, to lease or sell the Academy building, and
estate thereof, protect the property, collect the
funds, Ac.
167. An act to amend an act incorporating the
town of Thomasville in this State.
168. An act to prohibit non-residents from hunt
ing, ducking and tishing within this State.
169. An act to amend the various acts in relation
to the city court of Savannah, to extend the juris
diction and powers of said court.
170. An act for the relief of ffm. L. Dallas and
others.
171. An act to compensate grand and petit jurors
of certain counties therein named.
172. An act for the relief of C. J. Crawford and
Henry Ivey.
178. An act to incorporate the town of Jasper.
174. An act to incorporate the Savannah Sea
men's Friends Society.
A resolution in relation to the tax book of Floyd
county.
A resolution in relation to a Horse Mail in Ware
and Irwin counties.
A resolution appointing a committee to visit the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
175. An act to provide for perfecting titles to
lands jvhere parties die and hare bonds out for
Cities.
176. An act to grant certain powers and privi
leges to the Griffin Light Guards.
177. An act to incorporate the Macon Insurance
and Trust Company.
A resolution in relation to the boundary line be
tween Gekagia and Florida.
178. An act for the relief of James Hamby.
A resolution iu relation to the erection of tombs
over deceased members of the legislature.
A resolution relative to enlarging the present
mail service, Ac.
179. An act for the relief of John W. Spain.
180. An act to authorise the Justices of the
Peace for 164th district G. Jl. Terrell county, to hold
their court two days in each month.
181. An act to allow parties in Justices’ Courts
to prove open accounts, when the sum does not ex
ceed fifty dollars.
182. An act to repeal an act approved Feb. 20,
1854, to amend the patrol laws, so far as relates to
Ware county.
183. An act to amend the charter of the city of
West Point
184. An act to authorise the county of Floyd to
aid in the construction of the Georgia and Ala
bama railroad, by subscription for stock, to issue
bonds, Ac.
185. An act for the relief of Morgan Sweeney.
A resolution relative to retailing spirituous
liquors in Sumter county. ,
186. An act to point out the mode and manner ,
in which open accounts shall be proved, so far as
relates to Decatur county. ]
187. An act to amend the charter of the Atlanta j
A LaGrange railroad, Ac.
188. An act to authorise the Governor to loan to (
the Bowdon Collegiate Institute, of Carroll coun- ,
tv, one hundred stand of arms, and cavalry swords, (
189. An act to change the line between the coun- t
ties of Cobb and Paulding.
A resolution relative to hack line to Elijay, Can
ton, Ac. '
A resolution relative to the per diem and mileage
•f members of the legislature, Ac. ,
190. An act to regulate jury fees in the counties ,
of Jasper and Upson.
191. An act to add additional managers to the ,
Fort Gaines Academy Lottery, Ac.
192. An act to give certain privileges to W. B. .
Wofford.
198. An act to grant to the Mayor and Aider
men of Savannah a certain line of wharf head.
194. An act to authorise the Mayors and Alder-
StO iff the cities of Columbus and Griffin to 1
move the inmates of lewd and disorderly houses. ,
195. An act to charter the Atlanta Insurance j
company, Ac. .
196. An act to incorporate the Georgia Equita- ]
ble Insurance company, at Atlanta.
197. Ad act to authorise the Inferior court of 1
Terrell county to issue bonds Ac. .
198. An act to change the line of Taylor county.
199. An act to form a new county out of the
counties of Marion and Sumpter.
A resolution relative to soldiers entitled to ;
Bounty Land, Ac.
A resolution directing the survey of public
lands on Tybee Island.
2UO. An act to incorporate the town of Dawson.
201. To incorporate the SpriDg Place Mining
Company.
A resolution to authorise the Governor to pur
chase ten copies of Marberry and Crawford’s Di
gest.
A resolution authorising the Governor to sub-
Rcribe for a certain number of copies of Hines’
Book of Forms.
202. An act to authorise and empower the Justi
ces of the Inferior Court to discharge criminals or
offenders from jail, in certain cases.
203. An act for the protection of securities and
endorsers, and to authorise the issuing of bail pro
cesses in certain cases.
204. An act to change the time of holding the
Superior and Inferior Courts, in certain counties
therein named.
206. An act to repeal the sth and Cth sections of
an act to appropriate money for the Deaf and
Dumb, and provide for the appointment of com
missioners, Ac.
206. An act to alter Bth section of an act passed
Dec. 14, 1811, as relates to drawing of jurors in
Justices Courts in conjunction with commanding
officer^
207. An act to prevent obstructions in the pas
sage ot fish in the Ocmulgee river, aud to extend
the same.
208. An act to grant to the United States certain
territory in the limits of Savannah.
209. An act to establish a lire company in the
city of Lagrange.
210. An act to incorporate the town of Lump
kin.
211. An act for the belief of E. Dellinger and
Blizabeth Smith.
212. An act to secure a preference to persons in
Eosseasion of applications for grants under the
iws pertaining to head rights.
213. An act to confer certain powers on the city
councils of Savannah and Augusta.
214. An act to incorporate Coffee Lodge, No.
193, Telfair county, and Lodge No. 44 of Forsyth
county, and Canton Lodge No. 77 Cherokee county.
215’ An act to authorise the Justices of the In
ferior Court of Burke county to levy an extra tax.
216. An act for the relief of several persons there
in named.
217. An act to incorporate the Clayton Mining
Company.
218. An act to appoint commissioners to define
the line between the counties of Calhoun and Ba
ker.
219. An act to amend the laws upon the subject
of writs of certiorari.
220. An act to alter the road laws of Wayne
county.
221. An act to change the lines between the
counties of Jefferson and Emanuel.
222. An act to authorise the Inferior court of
.Butts county to levy an extra tax to build a jail.
223. An act to incorporate the LaGrange and
Troup Factory railroad.
224. An act for the relief of W. C. Holliday, of
Fayette county.
225. an act to fix the time of electing officers in
the city of LaGrange.
226. An act to authorise Tallulah E. Butts to re
ceive grants to certain lots of land.
227. An act to increase the salaries of the Execu
tive and Judges of the Supreme and Superior courts
of this State.
228. An act to provide for the election of a coun
ty Treasurer in the County of Decatur.
229. An act to make it penal to ent and haul off
limber from lands in the counties of Telfair and
Early without the conseut of the owners, Ac. ,
23«. An act to repeal so much of an act to change
thetime of bolding the Superior Courts of certain
counties therein named, passed at the last session,
as relates to the courts of the counties of n arren
and Hancock. ..... .. .. .
231. An act completely establishing the line be
tween the counties of Liberty and Mclntosh.
282. An act to amend an act now in force regu
lating the fees of Magistrates and Constables in
this State, so far as relates to the counties of Bibb,
Richmond, Monroe and Lee, and provide for the
mode of collecting the same, approved Jan. 22d
1852, so far as relates to the county of Bibb.
233. An act to amend Ist section of an act to
provide compensation for the commissioned, non
commissioned officers, musicians and privates of
certain companies of volunteers.
234. An act to extend the act of March 4th, 1856,
to authorise the issuing of attachments, and to reg
ulate proceeding in relation to the same, and for
other purposes.
235. An act to incorporate Young Physic Medi
cal College, and to change the name of ot. John’s
Free Chapel in the city of Savannah.
236. An act to alter and amend the several acts
in relation to itinerant traders, and to prescribe
the mode of obtaining license so far as relates to
the county of Worth.
237. An act to empower the Judge of the Supe
rior Court of the Western Circuit, to hold the
Spring term of the Superior Court of Gwinnett
county, two weeks, in certain cases, and change
the time pf holding the Spring term of said Court.
Also, the Superior Courts of Fayette county.
238. An act to incorporate the South Georgia
and Florida railroad company.
239. An act to declare the law of evidence in
certain cases, and to prescribe rules under which
clerks may refuse to record deeds, and for other
purposes.
240. An act for the relief of Benj. Johnston, of
Gilmer county, and for other purposes.
241. An act to amend the attachment laws of this
State.
242. An act to authorise the issuing of alias ex
ecutions by the several Courts of law within this
State, when the originals have been lost.
248. An act to change the time of holding the
Superior Courts of the counties of Clark, Walton,
Twiggs, and Muscogee.
244. An act for the relief of J. M. Davis, of the
county of Terrell, and A. F. Bennett, of the coun
ty of Chatham.
245. An act for the relief of the estate of Joshua
Newsom, late of the county of Putnam, deceased,
and John A. Cogburn, Adm’r. ©f said estate.
246. An act to prohibit, in so far as relates to
the countv of Lee, the traffic and sale of marks
and brands on cattle.
247. For the relief of A. H. Kenan.
248. To alter and amend an act assented to 25th
February, 1856, so far as to extend the time of
commencing the work on the Dalton and Gadsden
railroad.
249. To amend the road laws of this State so
far as relates to the county of Bibb.
250. To repeal an act entitled an act to appoint
county Treasurers, and to define their duties so far
as relates to the several counties therein named,
aud to give the election of Treasurer to the people
of said counties, approved Dec. 20th, 1849, so far
as relates to the county of Chatham.
251. To change and make certain the line be
tween the counties of Irwin and Coffee.
252. To amend the charter of the city of Al
bany.
253. To extend the corporate limits of the town
of Marshallville, in the county of Macon.
254. To relieve iron masters, in Cass county,
from paying tax on pig iron, the product of the
furnace.
255. An act to authorise the Sheriff of Rabun
county to sell lot of land No. 10, in the 2nd district
of said county, and to pay the money over to the
commissioners of the poor school fund, and for
other purposes.
256. An act to incorporate the Rome Mutual In
surance company.
257. An act to exempt from jury and militia i
duties, members of tire company No. 5, Augusta, j
Geo.
258. An act to incorporate the Rome Female Col- ]
lege, and Cartersviile Masonic Male and Female
Iligh School. ’
259. An act to authorise the Inferior Court of i
Campbell county, to employ Surveyor of said i
county to run the lines between the counties of
Campbell and Fayette. i
260. An act to authorise and require the Trus- i
tees of Trenton Academy to sell the Academy, and <
for other purposes. <
261. An act for the relief of Sarah Anderson, of
Telfair county.
262. For the relief of the Tax Collector of the ;
county of Walton, for the year 1858, secu
rities.
263. An act to change the lines of the counties
of Marion and Taylor, and Coweta and Heard.
264. An act to repeal an act of *53 and ’64 to es
tablish and make uniform rateß of ferriage, Ac., so
far as relates to Decatur county.
265. An act to incorporate the Pascal Mining, 1
the Altoona Mining, and the Bell Mining Compa- ]
nies, of Georgia.
266. An act to incorporate the Ocoee Lodge, No. )
1; Traveller’s Rest Lodge, No. 65 ; Henderson *
Lodge, No 98, and Twiggs Lodge, No. 161, of (
Free and Accepted Masons, and to incorporate
Florida Baptist Convention, and confer certain 1
powers on the Washington School or Institute. f
267. An act to explain 11th section of an act to
lay out and organise a new county from the coun- ’
ties of Lee and Randolph. *
268. An act to authorise Jas. Tooke, Executor of <
A. J. Coalson, late of Houston county, to purchase
the interest of said Coalson in said estate.
269. An ac to authorise the Justices of tbe In
ferior Courts of Clay, Murray and Coffee counties,
to lay off said couuties into school districts.
270. An act to regulate the collection of jury
fees m the Superior Courts of the county of Camp
bell.
271. An act to extend tbe provisions of an act
assented Feb. 21st, 1850, and to appoint commis
sioners to carry out the same.
272. An actio regulute the mode of appointment
of clerks ot the Senate and House of Representa
tives.
278. An act to prescribe the mode of proving
entries on tbe books of receivers of tax returns.
274. An act to amend an act incorporating
town of Fort Valley.
275. Au act for the protection of pilots of the
port of St. Mary’s.
276. An act for the better regulation of the town
of Elberton.
277. An act to change the line between Pickens
and Dawson counties.
278. An act to incorporate executive committee
of Washington Institute.
279. An act to incorporate the Sattilla canal com
pany, and others.
280. An act to organise a criminal court in the
cities of Macon, Atlanta and Roue.
281. An act to amend the 4th section of an act
incorporating the town of Dalton.
282. Au act to prevent obstructions of certain
water courses.
288. An act to extend the time to authorise the
bills of sale to be proven, recorded and admitted
in evidence.
284. An act to amend the practice in Courts of
Equity.
285. An act to compel railroads in this State to
give checks for trunks and baggage in separate
pieces, when required at any ot the stations of said
road, and to tbe point of destination of the pas
senger, under certain penalties.
286. An act to encourage persons making a will
to provide a permanent fund for the Collegiate
preparation and education of indigent boys or
young men.
287. An act to lav out a new county from the
counties of Irwin, Dooly, and Pulaski.
2t>B. An act to amend tbe several tax laws of
this State.
289. An act to incorporate the town of Vienna,
and for other purposes.
290. An act to define and establish tbe fees of
Ordinaries, Clerks of tbe Superior and Inferior
Corn ts, Sheriffs, Jailors, Justices of tbe Peace,and
Constables of this Stale.
291. An act to amend an act to authorise Judges
of tbe Superior Courts to appoint a receiver in va
cation, Ac.
292. *An act to prescribe the manner in which
service may be perfected on executors and admin
istrators under certain circumstances.
293. An act to amend an act to point the mode
, of ascertaining the relief and support to which
widows or orphans are entitled to out of tbe es
. tates of tbeir deceased husbands and parents in
cases where letters testamentary or administration
shall hereafter be granted, Ac., approved Feb. 19,
' 1856, so as to allow an appeal from tbe returns of
the appraisers, and the paymentof Ordinaries there
in ah in other cases.
29». An act for the protection of certain cases of
planters and rice sellers in this Stats.
If you would not have affliction visit yon often,
listen at once to what it teaches.
From Ote Baltimore San.
Thirty-Fifth Congress—First Session.
Washington, Jan. 4. —Senate. —The Senate re
assembled after the recess with a prettj full attend
ance. Mr. Davis introduced a joint resolution to
detine the authority of the President under the act
to amend the act to promote the efficiency of the
navy in respect to dropped and retired naval offi
cers ; and he gave notice that be would call it up.
Mr. Pugh reported a bill to provide for the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union as a State under
the Constituion adopted at Lccompton, November
7, 1857, with the boundaries defined in the pacifi
cation bill of the last Congress, and upon two fun
damental conditions The first condition is, that
the seventh article of the Constitution, relative to
slavery, shall be submitted to a separate and direct
vote, “yes ” or “ no,” of the qualified electors, on
the 7th of April, 1858, at which time the State offi
cers, the legislature and Congressmen shall be
chosen. The returns of this election are to be
made to the Governor of the Territory instead of
the president of the convention, and the election
conducted in obedience to the laws in force on the
7th of November last.
The second fundamental condition is, that the
Constitution shall not be so constructed as to limit
or impair the right of the people, through their
legislature, at any time, to call a convention for
the purpose of altering, amending or abolishing
their form of government, subject only to the Con
stitution of the United States. The President is
to be required to admit the State by proclamation
as soon as the election of April 7th shall have
transpired. The ordinance of the Lecompton con
vention relative to the grants of public lauds is
rejected, and in its stead the usual articles of com
pact are offered to the first legislature of Kansas
for acceptance or rejection, as in the case of other
new States. The bill jvas read twice, and referred
to the committee on Territories.
Mr. Benjamin submitted the following resolu
tion, which was refered to the committee on print
ing:
Resolved. That there be printed for the use of
the Senate twenty thousand copies of the opinions
of the Judges of'the Supreme Court in the case of
Dred Scott vs. John F. A. Sanford.
The resolution submitted some time since by
Mr. Slidell, calling on the President for copies of
the records of the proceedings of the several
courts of inquiry organised under the act of Con
gress approved January 16, 1857, to amend an act
entitled “An act to promote the efficiency of the
navy,” was taken up and discussed for some time
by Messrs. Crittenden, Fessenden, Bayard, Colla
iner and others, but the hour having arrived for
the consideration of the special order, the resolu
tion was postponed, without any action having
been taken thereon.
On motion of Mr. Fitzpatrick, a resolution was
adopted, requesting the President, as far as may be
compatible with the public interest, to communi
cate to the Senate the correspondence, instruc
tions and orders to the United States naval forces
on the coast of Central America, connected with
the arrest of William Walker and his associates,
at or near the port of San Juan, in Nicaragua; and
also to transmit such further information as he
may possess in relation to that event.
The time having arrived for the consideration
of the motion to print so much of the President's
Message as relates to Kansas, Mr. Brown having
the floor, proceeded to the discussion of the ques
tions involved in that subject, but after speaking
for a few minutes, sudden indisposition compelled
him to yield the floor, and the further considera
tion of the motion was postponed until to-morrow.
The Senate next proceeded to the consideration
of a private bill for the relief of Alexander J.
Atocha, but it was not finally disposed of, having
been postponed after some discussion.
A bill for the relief of George P. Marsh, was
next taken up and passed, and the Senate ad
journed.
House. —The House re-assembled pursuant to
adjournment. The speaker submitted a letter
from N. P. Banks to the effect that he has forward
ed to the Governor of Massachusetts his resigna
tion as a member from the 7th Congressional Dis
trict of that State.
Mr. Clingman, from the committee on foreign
affairs, reported a resolution that the President be
requested, if in his opinion it be not incompatible
with the public Interests, to communicate all the
information in relation to the seizure of Gen. Wm.
Walker and his followers in Nicaragua, together
with such instructions as hare been given to the
naval officers, and other officers, pertaining to the
subject.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, said he should like
the gentleman to modify the resolution so as to
call for all the information respecting the fitting
out of the expedition by General Walker in this
country.
Mr. Clingman thought the act of Commodore
Paulding in landing on the soil of Nicaragua and
arresting Walker and his force amounted to an act
of war.
Mr. Ritchie thought the act of Com. Paulding
justifiable, on the ground that Walker was a crim
inal and a fugitive from justice, and could there
fore be arrested anywhere.
Mr. Clingman thought the war-making power
resided in Congress alone, and therefore our offi
cers should not do acts tending to war without <
previous authority from Congress. The act of
Paulding should be disavowed, or Great Britain
must be permitted to do like acts in Central Amer
ica. It will not do to leave to subordinate officers
of government the option of involving it in war.
He referred to the case of the Caroline, to show
how easily unauthorised officers can involve their ,
government in war.
Mr. Faulkner offered a resolution, which was ac
cepted by Mr. Clingman as a substitute for bis
own, asking, in addition to the other information
called for, full information as to the fitting out of
Walker’s expedition.
Mr. John Cochrane thought the legal status of
Walker in regard to the United States, when he
left our shores for Nicaragua, should also be com
municated to the House, and he suggested an
amendment of the resolution for that purpose.
Mr. Marshall, of Ky., proposed an amendment,
calling for information as to whether, by treaty or
otherwise, the government of the United States
has guarantied to Nicaragua the security of the
transit route through that State.
The resolution of Mr. Faulkner, with Mr. Mar
shall’s amendment, was adopted.
Mr. Kelsey offered a resolution, which was
adopted, calling on the President to inform the
House whether the government of Nicaragua has
made any complaint on account of the capture of
Gen. Walker.
On motion of Mr. Cobb, a resolution was adopts
ed, instructing the committee on Territories to in
quire into the propriety of abolishing the Territo
rial government of Utah, aud annexing the Terri
tory to the adjacent Territory of the United States.
Mr. Morrill introduced a bill to punish the prac
tice of polygamy in the Territories of the United
States, and for other purposes. Referred to the
committee on the judiciary.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, offered a resolution,
which was adopted, that members be supplied, at
the present session, with the same number of
newspapers as at the last session, and at the same
prices.
Mr. Grow presented a bill, which was referred
to the committee on public lands, for giving
homesteads to settlers on the puolic domain.
Mr. E. Joy Morris introduced a bill, which was
referred to the committee on commerce, for the
continuance of river and harbor improvements 011
the river Delaware.
Mr. Goode submitted a bill, which was referred
to the Committee of the District of Columbia, reg
ulating the municipal elections in the city of
Washington
Mr. Keitt proposed a bill, which was referred to
the Committee on Military Affairs, raising a regi
ment of mounted troops for the defense of the
frontier of Texas. m
A number of other minor bills were introduced
and appropriately referred.
Mr Harlan offered a resolution, which was
adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
for the names and locations of unnecessary ports
of entry and revenue cutters.
Mr. Smith, of Illinois, offered a resolution,
which was adopted, authorising the Speaker to
appoint a committee of five, to investigate all the
circumstances connected with the sale of the reser
vation of Fort Snelling.
Spot on the Son —A correspondent of the Char
leston Qrvrier says: “ A large spot has recently
made its appearance on the face of the sun. It is
forty thousand miles in diameter, of rather trian
gular figure, along the borders of the penumbra,
within which are four or five nuclei, and several
, smaller ones, in the form of dots and lines. The
diameter of the spot being five times that of the
earth, its surface must be more than six times the
whole surface of the earth, or fifteen times greater
than the habitable portion of the globe.”
Exchange.
A Novel Turn-odt. —Among tbe novelties ob
served in New York on New Year’s Day wasacar
. riage propelled by steam, and operand by two
fast young men, in tbeir business of making calls.
They doubtless considered the old fogy turn-out of
four-in-hand as altogether to- - * slow for the times,
and the accomplishment of the full complement of
“five hundred calls.”
From the Washington States, Jan. 4.
The Administration— Com. Paulding and
Black Republicanism.
The whole Black Republican press of the coun
try are loud in their commendation of the recent
iileg tl and unjustifiable act of Com. Paulding in
ai resting G?». Walker and his followers on foreign
soil; whiletbe Democratic press, North and South,
with scarcely an exception, condemn it m the
most unmeasured terms. The Black Republicans
would have President Buchanan endorse this in
fraction of the Constitution, and thereby sustain
a precedent which would, in all probability, result
fatally to the progress of this country. To endorse
such a policy, would be a justification for England
to send a fleet to this country for the purpose of
kiduapping Mitchell, Meagher, or any of the polit
ical exiles her most gracious Majesty might re
quire before her despotic government
The President, through all the antecedents of
his public life, has been uncompromising de
tender of the whole law and the entire rights of
the people; and the world with perfect
resuect and confidence the announcement ot his
firm determination to discountenance and prevent
every form of illegal filibustering from our shores.
It is precisely because he is Known to. be the
firm upholder of the law and the Constitution, that
it is a source of regret to every member of the
Government that Commodore Paulding should, in
his zeal to carry out the instructions of the Execu
tive, have gone so far bejond them, and the letter
and spirit of our institutions.
The President had indicated in his message a
clear and unmistakable resolution to repfess, with
the whole force and energy of the Government,
any and every infraction ot international law ; and
therefore it is preposterous for any Black Republi
can or other sympathizing journals to argue that
the very decided infraction of that law py Com
modore Paulding was “ wise and meritorious.”
It is well understood that the President has ini
tiated a clear, comprehensive, and independently
American policy on the whole Central American
Isthmus; a policy which will open that country
freely to trade and settlement; a policy based on
law, and enforced by legal authority, and in which
be will be sustained by the sound, unbroken
phalanx of the Democracy in Congress, and by
the whole country, when it is understood. This
policy and this position would be impaired by the
least taint of illegality; and hence the cunning ef
forts of the Black Republican press to make the
administration responsible for Paulding’s blunder,
and, if possible, to induce it to accept his error as
a part of the government programme.
This course is natural enough to that party; but
no Democratic press, without having Black Re
publican affinities, can be inveigled into such a
false position as to advocate such a policy. It
seems to us that no Democratic journal can be pos
sibly misled into a partnership with the old ene
mies of Democracy, at the moment when the com
ing questions of Kansas, Utah and Central Ameri
ca—to say nothing of Mexico and Cuba—call for
its cordial and united action. It must win or lose
oil the broad, unimpeachable platform of American
progress, under a lawful flag, with the spotless de
vice of the law and Constitution clearly written on
its folds; and the “higher law” advocates of
Paulding and Black Republicanism will never sin
cerely adopt or loyally defend those principles.
The Ten Broeck Course.
The second day’s races at tbe Ten Broeck Course
came off as follows : '
First Race— On calling the horses up, for the
first race, Mr. Barclay’s ch. c. being the only one
appearing, he galloped around and took
the purse.
Second Race.— Jockey Club purse, three hundred
and fiftv dollars. Two mile heats. In the first
heat, Kate Hunter came out first. Time, 4.03.
Shockoe second. In the second heat Shockoe first.
Time, Kate Hunter second. Kate Hunter
having been withdrawn after this heat, Shockoe
was declared the winner of the purse.
Third Race.— Saddle race ; purse fifty dollars ;
entrance ten dollars—to go with the purse. En
tries : Mr. Saddler’s white horse, Mr. Smith’s sor
rel horse, and Mr. Aiken’s sorrel horse, Boston.
The latter having distanced both ths other horses,
was declared the winner of the purse. Time, 2.02
After the above races were over there was a race
between Messrs. W. Dunn’s and J. Larkin’s horses,
which was won by the latter. We learn that Mr.
Dunn was thrown from his horse twice, and in the
second fall received some very severe injuries.
Savannah Morning News, Jan. 7.
Ten Broeck Course Races.— First Day.— The
dampness and heavy rains did not prevent a large
concourse from being in attendance at the track
yesterday.
In absence of our regular report we give tbe fol
lowing result of the first day:
Colt Stakes for three year olds—mile heats—
slso entrance—to which the club added SIOO.
First Meat. —Kate Hays 1
Basvecchi 2
John Chain 3
Time—l.s4.
Iu consequence of an injury to Basvecchi he was
withdrawn after this heat.
Second Heat. —Kate Hays 1
John Chain 2
Time—l.ss.
SECOND RACE.
Joe Key Club Purse sls0 —mile heats.
First Heat. —Carolina 1
Betty Hawkins 2
Mat Spangler 3
Agitator 4
Time—l.ss}s.
Mat Spangler withdrawn after this heat.
Seoond Heat.— Agitator 1
Betty Hawkins 2
Carolina 3
Time—l.s9.
Carolina withdrawn after this heat.
Third Heat.— Agitator 1
Betty Hawkins 2
Time—2.ll.
Rain very heavy during this race.
Savannah Georgian, Jan. 5.
Fire.—Our citizens were alarmed on Monday
night, at about ten o’clock, by the cry of tire,
which originated on Decatur, near to Peach Tree
street, in the store of Mr. T. D. Lyses. We have
only room for the following brief particulars, add
ing, however, that the siores referred to were all i
burned to the ground, and but for the exertions of
our gallant fire companies, JS T o. 1 and 2, there is no
telling to what extent the tire would have pro- :
grossed.
Store No. 1, owned by Mr. Collier, insured. Oc
cupied as a crockery store—insured for one thou
sand doll Hrs.
Store No. 2, owned by Mr. Silvy, insured for one
thousand dollars. Occupied as a bar room—no in- \
surance.
Store No. 3, owned by Dr. Thompson, no insur
ance. Occupied by Dr. T. D. Lynes—stock six
thousand dollars—insured tor three lb >usand dol
lars.
Stores No. 4 and 5, owned by S. B. Tanner, Hen
ry county, Georgia, insured. Occupied as a family
grocery aud eating house—stock light; no insur
ance.—Atlanta Intettinemrr dr Examiner, Jan. 5.
Ocr National Credit.— The New York Times
takes a sensible view of the outrageous calumny
uttered by such presses as the New York HtruU l,
to the effect that we are a nation of swindlers—
that our merchants arc deliberately withholding
the sums due their foreign creditors. Facts are
stubborn things; and the Tunes shows that, in
the single month of December, this country
has sent to England, to pay its debts, in specie,
alone—
From New York $7,500,000
From Boston 2,5<.M),000
$10,000,000
And the Times has the following calculation
as to the amount ot cotton that has gone for
ward :
“ Os the new crop of cotton, the southern States
have already sent forward the value of twenty-one
million dollars, of which fifteen million dollars
have gone to England, and the rest to France and
Germany—making thus a total «'f thirty-one mil
lion dollars forwarded by us, in two months time,
to our creditors over the sea. So much for the
disoositioo of this country to meet its liabilities
and preserve its good name untarnished. 01 its
ability, some notion may be formed f om the fact
that tne heavy payments of December have left
our banks in New York city two million five hun
dred thousand dollars stronger than they were
when the month began.”
These statistics are most honorable to our mer
cantile character as a nation, and show the won
derful elasticity of our country.
Washington States.
Chaplains on Railroads 'V* were not aware,
until we encountered the following paragraph in a
religious journal, that we had chaplains on our rail
roads : “ Rev. J. W. Osborn, chaplain of the Illi
nois Central railroad company, gave a sketch of
the results of bis labors along *bat line of road.
Schools have been establisbt-d at all the stations,
and are in a flourishing condition, and the means
of much good. Bible classes are large and numer
ous. Some of the children walk several m’les to
the schools.— Rnchange.
Hair Specifics.
The number of hair specifics which are now
Tended under the astouudiug names of ** Wa
fhene/’ “ Tricopherous,” Ac., is really wonderful,
t is professed for them that they restore the hair,
(curing baldness), prevent it falling out, give it a
beautifully soft and glossy appearance, and either
kill or cure all the ills that hair “ is heir to.” Judg
ing from the number of establishment' where such
articles are manufactured, the quantity sold must
be prodigious; and judging from the prices at
which they are sold, the profits arising from them
cannot be small. That some of these lotions are
good in their way, there cant be no room to doubt;
ut the merits of the best are greatly exaggerated
by thoie who sell them. We will give a few re
cipes for making such specifics, so that those of
our readers who wish to use them can make the
preparations themselves.
No. I.—Take eau de cologne, two ounces; tinc
ture of cantharides, half an ounce; and add twen
ty drops of the oil of lavender.
No. 2.—Take vinegar of cantharides, half an
ounce ; eau de cologne and rose water, each half
an ounce.
No. 8. Take an ounce of castor oil, mix it
thoroughly with a pint of alcohol, and add half
an ounce of the tincture of cantharides.
No. 4. Sulphuric ether one ounce, tincture of
cantharides one ounce, olive oil one ounce, alcohol
one pint
These four recipes are sufficient. The first two
are from the work of Erasmus Wilson, F. R. S.,
the author of au able treatise on cutaneous dis
eases. The last two recipes are followed by per
sons who manufacture the article for sale, and are
better than the first two; they are capable of mak
ing excellent TricopheroHS, both for keeping the
head clean, preventing the hair failing out, and,
in some cases, curing partial baldness. In using
them, the head should be brushed smartly w ith
a hard hair-brush, the lotion then applied with a
piece of sponge, the head brushed again, and a
a silk nightcap put on. The best period to apply
it is just before going to bed, but it may also be
used at any time of the day.
The philosophy of such hair specifics consists in
considering decay in the growth of hair to be due
to an absence of vigorous action in the nerves of
the scalp. The tincture of cantharides excites ac
tion in tnese nerves, and its office is to restore vigor
to the hair, preventing its falling out, and promot
ing its growth. The oil keeps the skin soft, and
the alcohol tends to dissolve the scurf and keep th#
scalp clean. The alcohol requires to be ninety
five per cent, proof, or it will not dissolve the oil.
The tincture of cantharides can be purchased at
the druggists ; but it can be made one-fourth
cheaper by steeping one ounce of Spanish flies in
six ounces of alcohol for twenty*four hours. Any
perfume may be used, but the oil of lavender is
about the cheapest.
The Tricopberous can be colored a beautiful
crimson by steeping a tew chips of alkanet root
in it, or colored yellow by a little bichromate of
potash, but the color adas nothing to the quality
of the lotion. An alkaline solution of honey is re
commended by Borne for restoring the hairm cases
of baldness, and a vinegar extract of horse-radish
as a substitute for cantharides is described in on#
of Erasmus Wilson’s specifics ; but those we have
given arc as good as any, and can be made at a
comparatively small cost. — Scientific American.
Secret of resumption in New York. —We have
seen frequent boastings with reference to the sub
stantial condition of the banks in New York—of
their twenty-six millions specie capital, overflow
ing cotters, unquestionable ability to resume, Ac.
Some insight into the cause may be gathered from
an article in the Courier dk Enquirer , which jour
nal says: “Virtually, they had resumed long since;
and why not, therefore, do it formally, and thus
avoid the necessity of asking any legislation m
their behalf at Albany? Besides, we nave reason
to believe, that a regular combination was entered
into some weeks since, by those who infest the
lobby at Albany, to prevent any legislation in be
half "of the banks until a very large doucer or bribe
had been extorted from them. It was said, and
we believe it to be true, that a million and a half
of dollars would have been demanded from the
banks of the State as a condition precedent, for
the enactment of such laws as would have been
necessary to prevent their going into liquidation.
We therefore, not only apprised the banks of their
danger, but we urged most strenuously their re
sumption of specie payments before the first of
January.”
Under these circumstances, resumption became
a matter of self-preservation—an absolute necessi
ty. Herein then lies the secret. Had not the
enormous amount of bribe money, and the appre
hension cf consequences, as intimated above, been
hanging over them, we imagine the banks in New
York would have paid more respect to the recip
rocal interests of the business community.
Baltimore ratrioX.
Death of Miss Leslie. —The Philadelphia Bul
letin, of Saturday, Jan. 2nd, announces the decease
of this lady, who was probably as widely known
by her writiugs as any one that hus ever liyed in
the United States. Miss Eliza Leslie died on the
Ist inst., at Gloucester, N. J., where she had been
confined to her room for some months, from an in
jury received last summer. Miss Leslie was a na
tive of Philadelphia, and was sixty-nine years of
age. Her family, on the father’s side, were of
Scotch descent, her great grand-father having
come from Scotland, and settled in Cecil county,
Md., in 1745. His wife was of Swedish descent;
so that Miss Leslie might well declare that she had
“ not a drop of English blood in her veins.” Her
father, who was a man of much ingenuity, a de
voted student of mathematics and natural philoso
phy, and a familiar friend of Franklin, Kitten
house, Jefferson, and others of the great men of
Philadelphia society in those times, went to Lon
don,*to wards the close of the last century; and
there, his son, C. R. Leslie, one of the greatest
painters in England was born in the year 1794.
Washington States , Jan, 4 th.
Taxation.—A New York Journal gives its rea
ders some interesting and edifying statistics upon
this subject. The city taxof New York is be
tween eight and nine millions, and as there are be
tween eighty and ninety thousand voters, this
makes the tax one hundred dollars the head of
every voter. At the beginning of the United
States government, with three millions of inhabi
tants, the national taxes were between two and
three millions, and the State and local taxes cor
respondingly small. As late as 1828, the taxes sos
the General* Government were but thirteen mil
lions, only four and a half millions more than are
the present taxes of New York city! In the year
1838-34 the entire taxes, general, State and local,
we-e estimated at one dollar and forty-five cents
a head for each member of the entire population.
A very difl'ereut estimate would have to be made
now!
The present taxation of France, including local
as well as national tax, is eighteen hundred mil
lions of francs, dis tnbuted over thirty five mil
lion people, or ten dollars a head. The taxes in
Great Britain are about four huudred million dol
lars, or eighteen dollars a head for everv one of
the population. The local taxes of New York city
are thirteen dollars a head, the State tax one dol
lar a head, and the federal revenue about three
dollars ahead, being nearly as much as England,
with its enormous expenditures of navy, army,
colonies and royalty! _
Death of an Old Printer.— Samuel Wright
Minor, probably the oldest printer in Georgia, died
m this city last Thursday, after a lingering illness
of three months. He was bom in Queen Ann’s
County, Maryland, in the year 1781, and removed
to Georgia early in life. He served an apprentice
ship in the office of William J. Bunce, of Augusta.
His first adventure in business was the publication
of the Athens Gazette, and signalized his paper by
presenting the first suggestion of General Jackson
as a caudidate for the Presidency of the United
Slates. Thence he removed to McDonough, Geor
gia, and published the McDonough Jaclceunian, &
warm adv«>cate of Jackson's Administration, until
the time of m«- Proclamation nd Force Bill, when
it sided with the States Rights party, and was the
vehicle of some of the ablest papers ever published
io defence of that party. He then removed to Fay
etteville, Georgia, and published the Fayetteville
Advertiser, a Democraiic paper, which ably sup
ported Ms. Folk in the great canvass of 1844. in
the publication of the Advertiser, Mr. Minor con
tinued till the infirmities of age compelled him to
retire. But ever an ardent politician, in bis last
days, when the “American” movement was started,
he joined that party, his last act of apolitical char
acter was to deposit bis vote for Hon. B. H. Hill,
the American Gubernatorial candidate of that par
ty. Extremely feeble, he tottered to the Macon
Court House for this purpose, and never left his
house alive afterwards.
He was the sob of Col. William Minor, an officer
in the revolutionary army, and though not a mem
ber »>f any branch of the Christian Church, gave
. ample assurance that be died in peace with God
and snan— Macon Telegraph, 1 fitivu.
Mr. Minor’s first adventure in the newspaper
line, was in Gre< nsborough, Ga., about the year
1408. —Edttxrs tiecorder.
Louisville, Jan. 6.—governor Poweli has been
elected U. 8. Senator from this State.
Prom the Journo? of cotnmtrce.
The Ullle Stocking*
A CHtUtsXUAO *•**. „ ,
Above the bofaebold brood* the dove of slumber,
In happy hope the children aiuk to eleep,
No carping care their tranquil test may cirmber,
Ami only eyes of love their vlf* 1 s keep.
Their little fctotfrtngs hang table each other,
Curved with the pressure of those renters feet.
A twight hued row, 1* it not sweet, thou mother, y*
Qn love intent, a fight like this to greet f
The children sleep: they dream of him, tbejatry.
Kind Santa Claus, who with a right good #
Comes down the chimney with a footstep mry,
With stores of good, the stocking a depth to flu.
Thus let them sleep, nor let the morrow s wak ng,
Those dreams dispel; too soon the charm will fly—
Fast come the time that sweet enchant meat hr caking..
With the “stern touch of cold reality.
The little stocking* hang beside the ingle—
Isot all which clustered there a year ago:
Ah ! mother, thy yearning memories mingle
Beside that vacant place ; thy warm tears flow;
That missing pair! the little feet which wore them
Shall tread no more these earthly paths of ours.
For the Eternal Hills rise bright before them.
And sunny paths, which wind througa Eden s flower#,.
Oh! listen, mother, if thy faith through weeping
Has faltered uot, thy trust in Heaven grown dim—
See. angels o'er thy child their watch are keeping ;
They tench his infant lips the Christman hymn :
The hymn they sungfor Alan’s son—the morrow
•Brings joy aud love to celebrate his birth ;
Can* thou not hear, aiu d thy heavy sorrow.
Thy child with these still singing, “Peace on earth ?
Fond mother, when these other feet are pressing
These little stocking^.seeking paths tn.trod,
Then be thy love a lifelong joy and blowing.
Thy faith a star, their will lug hearts to guide.
Watch o’er them, wheresoe’er their feet may wander j|
Perhaps for these thy loved aud lost one waits,
The angel in the path, which endt-th yonder,
Where seraph hands shall ope the golden gates.
And mother! ’mid thy tears and hopes remember
The poor and sad. the lone and mothenesa;
Chill are the winds and snows of dark December,
Many the homes to cheer, the hearts to bless..
Are there not mothers with a l?v« *s tendeiv
As that thou bcarest, whose lot Is haitl and ruae,
Who toll all night, to earn a pittance slender.
For frozen ffeet, for lips which cry for food i
They brought of old, to greet the Christ x
Go in His name, ere wakes the Christmas mtmi,
Give of thy store, and learn what purest pleasure*,
New hopes and joys, shall te thy soul be
From {he St. Louie Republican.
The Mormon Bible.
As the Mormons are just now attracting con
siderable attention, it may not he amiss to publish
what is generally regarded as the history of the
book, called the Mormon Bible. The time has not
yet arrived when a formal disproof of its being no
inspired work is necessary, and a plain story will
not be denied on the ground of its exceeding the
* U £he opinion is of many years’ standing that the
dbvntjiues (?) of America are descendants of the
lost tribes of Israel. Adair, in his history of the
North American Indian, adopts this theory, ana
takes great pains to prose it. He gives a minute
account of some Indian dances, where certain
words are used, (yo*ho-wali,) which, by a h(tle
torturing, he supposes derived from the word
Je-ho-tah, therefore—very cogent reasoning—the
Indians came from the lost tribes. \\ hether this
account is more acceptable, or less so, than thatol
Mynheer Diedrich Knickerbocker, in his veracious
history of New York, the learned must judge.
Diedrich speculates far and wide to account for
there being people on this continent, bin found the
problem attended with as much difficult.' as other
ethnographers have experienced in accounting for
a race of bipeds on the Eastern Continent, lie to
nally cuts ihe knot by the sage conclusion that the
people of this continent came here—bv accident.
Hu this as it may, the opinion df their Isracliti.-'h
descent has hud many supporters, and, it so hap
pening, an ingenious young gentleman of the bar,
by the name of Spaulding, in the Stale oi Connec
ticut, being out of health, and probably out of
practice, deermined to amuse and occupy his
leisure bums by writing a romance upon this
idea—of the Jewish descent of the North Ameri
can Indians. Upon this Idea be wrote the book
known as the Mormon Uible.
Tbc writer of this article has been assured, by a
gentleman of intelligence and unquestionable ve
racity, that be came from the town (not now re
membered) where Mr. Spaulding lived, and that
he has seen persons of that town who declared
that they saw whole chapters of the Jd'/ok of Mor~
nu/ne, when in the course of composition, shown
to them by the author.
Mr. Spaulding finally emigrated, either to im
prove his fortune or bis health, or both, and went
to the interior of the State of New York, where,
it seems, he has been lost sight of. He no doubt
died without being able to find a publisher tor his
romance, which ultimately turned up among some
rubbish in the garret of a printing establishment
in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where it was found by
a journaman printer by the name of Rigdon. This
Rigdon meeting with Joe Smith, (or Joe Smith
meeting with him), the two rogues together deter
mined to turn the work to account.
The book is written in Scriptural phraseology;
“and it came to pass,” that Joe and Rigdon made
a bungling addition byway of preface, stating that
certain melalic plates had been mysteriously dis
covered under a certain hill—thus and so—all
scribbled with strange characters, aud that, in
short Joe bad been Illuminated from heaven, and
empowered and instructed to "read w hence, ac
cording to their account, lo and heboid, the book
of Mwmon came forth, of course from heaven;
though some think the other place has a higher
claim to paternity.
The book, in itself, is not a bad romance. The
author takes tip the lost tribes and has them march
ed to the (or a) coast, w here vessels arc construct
ed upon winch they embark, aud guided by a mi
raculous needle, supernaturally provided—by which
the reader rnav Bee that the mariner’s compass,
though without a name, is older than anything ot
the sort known to the Chinese, who know every
thing except a steam engine; guided, 1 say, by a.
miraculous needle, they are conducted to (a) coast
where they land. The coast is our own. Alter
landing aiid occupying the country, the author, to
provide himself with incidents fur " chronicles,
introduces the serpent discord and brings about a
separation and a long series of wars anil conflicts.
The author, knowing by an easy method cl fore
sight (after the fact) all of the controverted poiuts
of theology, has taken care to solve them by indis
putable authority. The question of the trim ty, the
doctrines of free-agency, baptism Ac are all de
finitively settled beyond any farther dispute for all
those who accept the Mormon hook as the truit oC
inspiration: a very easy method.
It is but just to say that the book contains no
immoral doctrine, nor anything to shock delicacy
or refinement. That the customs ol ns fo,lowers
do not precisely indicate its character, may readily
he believed by those who are acquainted with the;
multitudinous forms in which under Ihe notion of
following the lamb, the world has been ssromsh
ed bv men of vast pretensions and little brains.
Mormonism, a few years ago, was almost too
contemptible to be notified. The Saints bist es
tablished themselves in New York; then moved
to the western part of Missouri. Driven from thin
latter place, they settled at Nauvoo, m Illinois,
where they soon made themselves oflensive to
their neighbors, and finally aroused an opposition
which ended in the death of Smith ami Rigdon
and a new exile. At last they fixed upon Halt
Lake in the remote and then unknown West,
where they hoped to live apart from the “Gentiles,”
as they call us. At Salt Lake they I. -ve ucernnu
ated in numbers to an extraordinary extent, most
of their accessions being from abro .., including
English, Welsh, Danes, and others.
They are a hardy, industrious people, absolutely
blind to everything but Mormonism, to which
they are fanaticallv devoted, under then recogniz' d
prophet Brigham'Young, w hose word is, to them,
the word of God. .... , . ,
Brigham Young has now raised the standard ot
rebellion against the United States, and we are
about to enter upon a war which is likely to at
tract the notice of the civilized world, and P“ 8sl ‘
bly may cost much life and treasure; and then,
and not till then, will the end be known.
It is not generally known, and yet it is true, that
Mormons are scattered throughout most of our
northern cities. They are counted by hundrß ff
in this very city of St. Louis, thougb they keep
very still, and are often employed U r whole
mouths without their employers knowing who
th% our country we can have nothing to do gov-
Arnmpntallv with the Mormon faith or religioo-
The question is purely one 01-civil pohcy and it m
honed that the government will vindicate tn«?
cause of civilization, as it is bound to maintain it»
civil supremacy. _
A Pkbdicamxht.—A cotemporary says that the-
Admfms.-a.mn ,s in as bad a strait with WaUer
as the man who drew an elephant for a lottery
mize and did not know what to do with him
when he bad him. They have damped Walker
down at the White House, but there is no law to
keep 1 him in jail, and it wont do to have him rnm
ing at large again. It is reported that Gen. Caa»
thinks Gen. Walker a “ common nuisance, but
that under all the circumstances, he an only be
abated by taking him back to Nicaragua.
Boor Hawxisg.—TheSonih Carolina legislature
has passed a formal reaolution declaring ‘Mial the
vending of the Holy Scriptures and hooka"! a re
ligious character by itinerants is not hawking and
pedling, by a just construction of the laws i f the
State upon that subject.”